The obstetrical remembrancer, or, Denman's aphorisms on natural and difficult parturition : the application and use of instruments, &c. / augmented by Michael Ryan.

  • Thomas Denman
Date:
1848
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Credit: The obstetrical remembrancer, or, Denman's aphorisms on natural and difficult parturition : the application and use of instruments, &c. / augmented by Michael Ryan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    labor, producing a sensation of squeezing, and causing the uterus to feel harder during their continuance. C] Causes of pain. 1. Expulsatory action of the uterus. 2. Resistance made to the effect of that action. [Causes of suffering; 1st. Forcible distension of cervix; 2d. Pressure on the ner- vous filaments by the contraction of the fibres; 3d. Distension of the passages. C] Distinctions of pain. 1. True. 2. False. Causes and signs of false pain. Means of removing them. Means by which true pains are supposed to be regulated, and their effect promoted. Note.—The pains attending labor are sub- sequent to the action of the uterus, though in common language the word pain and the action of the uterus are used synonymously. Progress of natural labors. Three periods or stages. 1st period;— Dilatation of the os uteri.